Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species.
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 6 | |||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | ||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 43 | 22 | 19 | 7 | |||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 3 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Total | 10 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 25 | 57 | 48 | 41 | 24 |
Andropogon spp., Arundo donax, Axonopus compressus, Brachiaria mutica (=Urochloa mutica), Cymbopogon spp., Eragrostis spp., Ischaemum spp., Oryza spp., Oryza sativa, Pennisetum spp., Pennisetum glaucum (=Cenchrus americanus), Phragmites karka, Rottboellia cochinchinensis, Setaria barbata, Setaria pumila (=Setaria glauca), Setaria verticillata, Sorghum bicolor (=Sorghum vulgare), Sorghum halepense, Sorghum nitidum, Stenotaphrum dimidiatum, Stenotaphrum secundatum, Urochloa setigera (Abhishek Rane pers. obs. 2023) (Poaceae).
Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10(4): 11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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Page citation
Saji K., M. Bhakare, and A. Rane 2024. Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866) – Rice Swift. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/borbo-cinnara, accessed 2024/04/20.